Actor Peter Boyle dead at 71

[Scurrilous]

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"Peter Boyle, the sardonic father on TV's "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died at New York Presbyterian Hospital, his publicist says.

The 71-year-old actor died last night after a long battle with multiple myeloma and heart disease."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16230527.htm

[GregW]

1. Damn!

He'll always be "Young Frankenstein" to me :(

[AllegroRondo]

2. Holy Crap!

what a loss. great actor, great career, he will be missed.

[Mabus]

3. I really liked him

I especially loved him in Young Frankenstein and The X-Files.

[Delphinus]

9. I loved his character on the X-Files too.

He played that character so well.

[Flaxbee]

12. "Don't you get it, son? Don't you understand?...

You're a homicidal maniac, that's why you do the things you do!"

God, I loved that episode. And I've always wanted to say the above lines to Shrubya...

[Mabus]

15. Clyde Bruckerman

Oh man. The first time I saw that I cried, just like Scully.

[Flaxbee]

21. the episode still gets me every time I see it...

Boyle and John Lennon were apparently best friends... Lennon was best man at Boyle's wedding...

[Mabus]

38. That says a lot about Boyle

and it makes the scene in X-Files when talks about gaining his pyschic ability because of Buddy Holly's death a little more poignant for me.

[Mrs. Overall]

17. Is this the episode where Scully gets her dog?

Does Clyde have a dog? Does he die at the end and then Scully adopts the dog? Am I mixing this up with another episode?

[Flaxbee]

24. it's the same episode -- Scully's neighbor

has a dog, the neighbor is part of one of Boyle's character's premonitions. Same episode, parallel storyline. Scully's neighbor dies - and Boyle's character sees how people die - Boyle sees the dog eating the neighbor b/c no one finds the neighbor for a day or so... does that help?

[Mrs. Overall]

25. Yes, thanks!

I remember Clyde and then something to do with the dog.

[Mabus]

37. Queequeg

the lovable cannibal from Moby Dick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queequeg)

Queequeg was actually the old neighbor lady's dog. Scully adopted him but he got eaten by a gator in a later episode.

[Daphne08]

50. Yes, he did. One of the best episodes.

May he RIP.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

51. "Autoerotic asphyxiation . . ."

". . . that's a bad way to go out."

Or words to that effect, said offhandedly to Mulder, who suddenly gets all defensive.

[Lisa]

54. he won an Emmy for that guest role

One of my all-time fave episodes too.

[Totallybushed]

4. Does anybody here

remember him in Joe??

[NYCGirl]

5. Sure do. What a peformance! And my fave was in "The Friends of Eddie Coyle"

with Robert Mitchum.

[lisa58]

6. My favorites were The Dream Team...

...and the dad in While You Were Sleeping - he was great.

[BattyDem]

27. I LOVE The Dream Team!

That movie is so underrated and Boyle was terrific. He was good in every role he played, but ... he made me laugh the hardest when he sang "Puttin' on the Ritz" with Gene Wilder in "Young Frankenstein" - just thinking about that scene makes me laugh. :rofl:

[Hand]

47. Great film...

"Yeah, this is Dillon. Funny thing, he's here right now goin' on about how sorry he is, how pissed off he is, they got grabbed. Almost enough to make me mad... No, not that mad. Yeah, I'll take care of it. Hey, I said I'll take care of it." (to the best of my recollection.) :toast:

[ashling]

26. I was gonna' say that

I saw it when I was in college.

[Sal Minella]

30. Glittery-eyed redneck, hated the hippies but hot for the bods.....

[SeattleVet]

36. Sure do - saw it when it first came out, and walked back home peeking back

over my shoulders the whole way.

"Are you going to shoot me next, Daddy?"

[kskiska]

43. I do. One of my favorites.

I've got a copy and have watched it several times. It's also Susan Sarandon's film debut, I believe - either Joe or Atlantic City. Joe brings back the whole hippie era.

[Pendrench]

7. If I remember correctly, he was very good friends with John Lennon. n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

8. Lennon was best man at his wedding to his wife Loraine...

who was a writer at Rolling Stone. They met on the set of "Young Frankenstein"; he was in full costume and make-up.

[DeepModem Mom]

10. Go in peace, Peter.

[ixion]

11. thanks, Peter, for years of quality entertainment... you were one-of-a-kind

rest easy now.

[brooklynite]

13. He was also a good Dem...

I can remember seeing him at a number of fundraisers in NYC.

[DeepModem Mom]

20. He was an active, contributing Democrat. He was a liberal. nt

[rock]

14. A great actor

He will be missed.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

16. I remember his Lazlo Toth to Bill Murrary's

HST very fondly.

[Bob Loblaw]

18. Also had a small role in Taxi Driver

as Wizard. No question in my mind that he will be most remembered for Young Frankenstein. "Oooopah, dooopah." No matter how many times I see the movie, the dance scene nearly makes me snot on myself. I'm just never prepared for how funny that is.

[Hand]

48. Another great part...

"Hey, whaddo I know? Who am I, Bertrand Russell?" :toast:

[Algorem]

19. "Joe"?That blows.

[young_at_heart]

22. He was great as "The Monster"

in Young Frankenstein!

[Critters2]

23. "Puttin' on the Ritz" What a great scene! nt

[CreekDog]

28. He just recently was on Carlos Mencia's show

He didn't sound too good, but he was funny. Didn't know that would be the last appearance.

Wish we had him for longer.

[Beausoleil]

42. What does this

"I Support President Bush" bumper sticker REALLY mean, Peter?

It means "I can't get this f***ing bumper sticker off my car!"

You will be missed, Peter!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

40. He was in "Monster's Ball" too, now that I think about it.

THAT was a creepy performance.

[villager]

41. God, he was good in that: "I don't want to go out like this."

Thorton: "Neither do I."

Thanks for all the good work, Peter!

[Guaranteed]

62. Yup. That's the one. nt

[Patiod]

63. was wondering when someone was going to mention that

it was great, and I'm not the biggest Mel Brooks fan.

The one thing I found distracting about Peter Boyle was that I could always hear the Philadelphia Catholic School system in his voice.

[Patsy Stone]

29. RIP

You will be missed.

[GreenPartyVoter]

31. Be at peace, Peter.

[LeftistGorilla]

32. the only funny person...

on "Everybody Loves Raymond"...:thumbsup:

[Vidar]

33. 'nuff said.

[geek tragedy]

34. Holy crap!

RIP.

[Vidar]

35. RIP Peter.

[AnneD]

39. Hands down.....

the funniest scene I ever witnessed was his scene with Gene Hackman as the blind man to Peter Boyle's monster in Dr. Frankenstein. I had tears running down my cheeks (and I wasn't the only one in the midnight showing college crowd).The next day my sides were sore-that is how hard I laughed. Heartiest laugh I ever had at a movie.

:toast: and this time, you get to really drink it. Thanks for the laughs-I am sure St Peter is splitting his sides as we speak.:toast:

[jus_the_facts]

44. ~*~Rest In Peace~*~

:cry:

[Mad_Dem_X]

45. He was also funny in "Johnny Dangerously"

But of course he'll be remembered best for "Young Frankenstein" and "Raymond."

May he rest in peace.

[Mad_Dem_X]

46. Wasn't he on "NYPD Blue," also?

I think he was a friend of Andy's who had a mentally-disturbed son, who ended up killing him. That was sad.

[Hand]

49. Yes...

He was Andy's AA counselor--Andy described him as "a pain in the ass, but okay." :toast:

He spent a lot of time telling Andy to hold off seeing his girlfriend again, but he was right. The character died as you describe.

[progressoid]

52. And a friend of John Lennon.....

Rest in Peace friends.

[AtomicKitten]

53. RIP

Thansk for the laughs.

[Sapphocrat]

55. And yet Patricia Heaton lives.

R.I.P., Peter. You were a great lefty, a wonderful actor, and a fine man.
:cry:

[byronius]

56. I thought he was damn cool. n/t

[Poll_Blind]

57. I really liked Peter Boyle. I think it will be a long time before someone...

...with his talents comes our way again.

PB

[FredScuttle]

58. My favorite role of his

was the campaign manager in "The Candidate" with Robert Redford

RIP Peter. God bless you for your gun control campaigning after John Lennon's assassination.

[Sal Minella]

59. That movie just belonged to Boyle. Redford was fluff.

Boyle being taken over by the success and madness of ambition was completely believable, he just Lady Macbethed himself right into it. I'd forgotten how great he was in that film.

[Lorien]

60. A good liberal too

he was close friends with John Lennon. RIP. :-(

[Manifestor_of_Light]

61. Monster's Ball

Billy Bob Thornton's dad. And of course Young Frankenstein.

[EFerrari]

64. kIck for a great actor